From f7b7fd8f3ebbb2810d6893295aa984acd0fd30db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rik van Riel Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:44:07 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] temporarily disable swap token on memory pressure Some users (hi Zwane) have seen a problem when running a workload that eats nearly all of physical memory - th system does an OOM kill, even when there is still a lot of swap free. The problem appears to be a very big task that is holding the swap token, and the VM has a very hard time finding any other page in the system that is swappable. Instead of ignoring the swap token when sc->priority reaches 0, we could simply take the swap token away from the memory hog and make sure we don't give it back to the memory hog for a few seconds. This patch resolves the problem Zwane ran into. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/thrash.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/thrash.c') diff --git a/mm/thrash.c b/mm/thrash.c index eff3c18c33a1..f4c560b4a2b7 100644 --- a/mm/thrash.c +++ b/mm/thrash.c @@ -57,14 +57,17 @@ void grab_swap_token(void) /* We have the token. Let others know we still need it. */ if (has_swap_token(current->mm)) { current->mm->recent_pagein = 1; + if (unlikely(!swap_token_default_timeout)) + disable_swap_token(); return; } if (time_after(jiffies, swap_token_check)) { - /* Can't get swapout protection if we exceed our RSS limit. */ - // if (current->mm->rss > current->mm->rlimit_rss) - // return; + if (!swap_token_default_timeout) { + swap_token_check = jiffies + SWAP_TOKEN_CHECK_INTERVAL; + return; + } /* ... or if we recently held the token. */ if (time_before(jiffies, current->mm->swap_token_time)) @@ -95,6 +98,7 @@ void __put_swap_token(struct mm_struct *mm) { spin_lock(&swap_token_lock); if (likely(mm == swap_token_mm)) { + mm->swap_token_time = jiffies + SWAP_TOKEN_CHECK_INTERVAL; swap_token_mm = &init_mm; swap_token_check = jiffies; } -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b